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SOCIAL EVOLUTION 



to develop it. It is argued that the European has a 

 higher aptitude for achievement than a member of 

 another race, and that this higher aptitude is due to his 



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PLEISTOCENE PRECURSOR 



FIGURE 73. The Family Tree of the Hominidae. 

 to Giddings.) 



( According 



mental and physical superiority. Professor Boas does 

 not believe that achievement is necessarily a measure 

 of aptitude for progress or of intellectual superiority. 



